Acknowledgements
Foreword
Part I - The Aim of this Study
Chapter 1. A different perspective
The aim of this study
Contents of this chapter
Two perspectives: a clinical example
Relevant literature: ’An inexhaustible array of subjects’
A handbook on parenting - not parents
Summary
Chapter 2. ’Parent’ - a definition
Contents of this chapter
A definition
Categories of parents
(Dis-)similar concepts
The issue of professional ethics
Parental resilience and vulnerability
Summary: A resilient and vulnerable definition
Part II - The Parental ’Work Floor’
Chapter 3. The necessity of a conceptual framework for child rearing
Introduction of the problem: how to describe child rearing?
Contents of this chapter
Disconcerting facts
Problems of measuring
The infinite variety of parental behavior
A much-researched, yet under-researched field
Conclusion: An elusive subject
Chapter 4. Child rearing as a multi-determined empty box
Introduction of the problem: Belsky’s diagram of the determinants of parenting
Contents of this chapter
The implicit meaning of arrows
The basic pattern of the diagram
The choice of determinants
The relative weight of determinant factors
The wrong realm?
The term ’determinant’
Summary and conclusions
Chapter 5. On the need to explore the parental work floor
Introduction: on skipping the work floor and jumping to conclusions
The contents of this chapter
Vignettes from clinical practice
On acquainting oneself with the parental work floor and its logic
How to focus questions and organize answers
The social information processing model
Proposal for a parent-focused schema
The modest place of parental attitudes in this schema
Summary of the chapter
Chapter 6. Elementary child-rearing behaviors
Introduction: five categories of child-rearing behavior
The contents of this chapter
Providing safety - keeping them out of harm’s way
Providing nurture - the virtues of routine
Gauging the child - uncertainty
Making demands - gentle and not-so-gentle messages
Setting limits - and re-setting them
Why these five categories? About the nature of elementary child-rearing behaviors
Summary of the chapter
Chapter 7. Deliberations - how parents learn and how they teach
Introduction of the problem: parental learning - learning to teach your child
The contents of this chapter
Uneasy associations of parenting with development
How parents learn
How parents teach
Explaining work-floor problems as ’inconclusive deliberations’
Summary of this chapter and conclusions
Chapter 8. Regulating emotions - how parents grow
Introduciton of the problem
Contents of this chapter
Sources of unpleasant emotions on the work floor
The terms ’emotion’ and ’emotion management’
Emotion regulation by parents: three models
Parental growth
Conclusions
Part III - Moderator Mechanisms Protecting Child Rearing
Chapter 9. The interrelatedness of child rearing and context
Contents of this chapter
Developmental contextualism - towards a wider field of observation
Ecological systems theory: process replaces effect
Cultural anthropology: the close interrelatedness of parenting and culture
Sociobiology: quantity versus quality
Summary of the chapter, and discussion
Chapter 10. From risk factors to moderating mechanisms
Introduciton of the problem
Contents of this chapter
From risk factors to moderating mechanisms
The idea of moderator mechanisms in clinical practice: ’the untreatable family’
Summary of the chapter and concluding remarks
Epilogue
Bibliography
Name index
Subject index
Samenvatting / Summary in Dutch
Curriculum Vitae
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